We don’t list every cottage in Cornwall. We list the ones we’d book ourselves.
Each property in our collection is personally vetted before it joins. We check the beds, test the showers, look for the small things — the view from the kitchen window, whether the lane floods in November, how the light moves through the sitting room in the afternoon.
You’ll find handsome holiday cottages in Cornwall on plenty of bigger sites. What you’ll find here is a smaller, more deliberate selection — places we know first-hand, set across our favourite corners of Cornwall, from the harbour towns of the north coast to the wooded creeks of the Roseland.
If it doesn’t earn a place in the collection, it’s not in the collection.
Travelling with a dog. Bringing the family. Wanting a hot tub at the end of the coast path. Find your shortlist by the things that actually shape a stay.
Front door to sand in minutes. Outdoor showers, wetsuit pegs, sand-tolerant kitchens. Beach cottages, properly.
The most popular size of holiday cottage — room for a small family or two couples, and the widest choice of location in Cornwall.
The group-holiday size — room for a larger family, three couples, or two families sharing the same stretch of Cornish coast.
Large houses for the whole gathering — big family holidays, multi-generation trips and group celebrations, all under one Cornish roof.
Cornwall's countryside could be our best kept secret. Sunken lanes, walled gardens, working farms, the oldest hedges in Britain.
Cottages near Cornwall's cycle routes — the flat traffic-free trails, the brutal coast roads, and everything in between.
The whole family, one big house, the sea outside the window — and a county that does Christmas properly.
Spring stirs along the coast path. Daffodils on the clifftops, the season's first surfers in the water, and a Cornwall slowly waking up.
The quietest school holiday of the year — storm-watching, log fires, empty beaches, and the first stirrings of a Cornish spring.
A handful of cottages we've returned to recently — new arrivals, seasonal favourites, and the ones we keep recommending to friends.
Carbis Bay
From £1,235 per week
A first-class apartment with breathtaking sea views across Carbis Bay and St Ives
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Padstow
From £1,330 per week
Truly stunning sea view property in the heart of Padstow
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Bude
From £2,530 per week
An impressive former rectory, set in beautiful gardens offering a tranquil retreat
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Newquay
From £1,265 per week
Luxury apartment overlooking Fistral Beach
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Watergate Bay
From £1,530 per week
A peaceful retreat short walk from Watergate Bay
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Wadebridge
From £1,085 per week
Contemporary spacious holiday home on the River Camel
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Fowey
From £1,030 per week
A charming retreat for a romantic break in the south of Cornwall with its own hot tub
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St Ives
From £830 per week
A coastal retreat moments from Porthminster Beach with use of hotel spa facilities
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Tell us your dates, your group, and a sense of what you're after — coastal, rural, dog in tow, hot tub non-negotiable. We'll come back with a shortlist.
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